Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-04-02
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.
DAKOTA.

Yankton.
There are a few lingering traces OF snow In
Lake county.
w. N, Camp, OF Michigan, has Bought the
Milbank creamery.
Eve car loads Of immigrants arrived at
Kimballi n one day.
The Yankton running hose team has re-
ceived a new race cart.
The real estate boom is visiting Flandrau
with profitable results.
Stone cutters in the quarries at Sioux Falls
earn from 81 TO s. per day.
The Dakota veterans held a reunion at
jamestown on Wednesday.
Sioux Falls has been given an impetus by
the prospects OF new railroads.
The schools Of Yankton are still closed or
account Of contagious disease.
Lake county farmers are going into the
business Of raising bloodcd stock.
Hon. j. }. Kleiner, ex member Of congress
from the First district OF Indiana, has located
at Pierre.
In Madison real estate IS beginning TO
move, and land-seokers and investors are ar
irving daily.
Judge Spencer has decided to hold his first
term Of court in DcSmet, Kiugsbury county,
beginning March -.
A man named Bruno Vermesch was drowned
in the Cheyenne river 40 the old Pierre road
crossing lear RAPID City on Wednesday
last.
The Watcrtown Telephone company. with
RI. Il. Peasc president aud$52, 900 capital, wa
put in a seventy five exchange cjrcuit within
a month.
Rev. John Eastman, Of Flandrau, visited
the lower Brule agency last week and in one
day baptised eighteen indians and married
three couples.
The work af Father Walsh, Of the Dead
wood Catholic church, is said to have resulted
In an unexpected number OF conversions to
Catholicism so far.
Assays made on ores from several Ruby
Basin Mines recently, give very fine returns,
and that district is every day growing into
prominence and favor.
John Sage, who confessed to setting fire TO
j. y. Norton's barn, In Elk Point, was adj
Judged insane, and was taken to the asylum.
He is a monomaniac on the subject Of women.
Pensions granted: Daniel Il. Bowers, Cen
%terville; Christopher Hansen, Parke River;
Patrick Barrett, Bridgewater; William b..
Enos, Gay. Reissued S. 5. Vroman, Water
bury.
The Lake Park house, Madison's $4,000
hotel built Of Jaspe granite, with all modern
Improvements anu conyenieuces, is nearly
completed and will be opened to the public
very soon.
%The COMMISSIONS Of the general land office
has confirmed the decision Of the Deadwood
Office IN the case of John L. DAILY Va. Clarence
A. McKane, involving title TO 12O acres Of
land.
A slight collision occurred at jamestown
early Thursday morning between the through
passenger from the west and tho local Fargo
west bound. No one WAS hurt and no great
damage was done.
Louis Patnaud, appointed territorial veter-
mary surgeon by the governor, is the clerk Of
the district court Of Brookings county. He
will qualify and resign as soon as the judge
finds a suitable person for clerk.
There are already about four times as many
candidates as offices 10 fiji in the municipal
election at Sioux Fails. The places DO not
pay a nickel in salary, while the positions
give plenty Of work and criticism.
AT Highinorc, In the Ro2Oc- Nitek assault
with intent TO Kill matter, Justice Hadley held
Mrs. Vitck and her son Frank n $1,000
bonds, Mr.. Vitek and Charles Vitek being dis
charged. RozCc is rapidly improving.
Kimball C LIBERATED ST. Pitrick'slAy. A da-
rade took place In the afternoon and Il v.
Father w. F. Higgins, Of Charles Mix coun-
~, delivered a lecture at Sm this opera bouse
In the evening, the subject of which WAS:
'What Shall We Drinkpn
Damascus ccmmandery, Aberdeen, will oh
serve Easter Sunday at the NJ. +. church, 10
conducted by Rev. j. NJ. Mcbride, rural
lean OF the grand commandery of Dakota.
Several sir knights are expected from Water
town and other Communicates.
Prof. Baley's cabinets of geological speci-
mems at thu School of Mines, Rapid City, is
said to be one OF the finest collections OF the
kind in the United States, the result Of years
OF labor in gathering and selecting by the
generous professor, who donated it to the new
institution.
The Milwaukee company has graded a track
from Beloit up the east side OF the Big Sioux
and laid the iron to a point just south OF Can
ton. where a fine new bridge will be built and
both roads will be accommodated at the new
depot which will be built in the spring.
The territorial Araud jury made short work
and promptly returned Two indictments for
murder. William Carlson is indicted for the
murder Of one Robinson and one Peter Olsen.
When they were returning from Bismarck to
Williamsport, the evidence will show
q quarrel ensued, during which Carlson drew
a revolver and shot Robinson. Peter Olsen
being the only witness to the shooting. soon
after mysteriously died from the effects of
poisoning. The second indictment Is against
Henry G.. Baker Tor mixing the poison In
Olson's food and causing his death.
An election viii be held July 18th to decide
upon the removal Of the county seat 10 Aber-
deem. Real estate at that city has undergone
a boom beyoLd all expectations. and as the
prospects for great improvements continue
for this year the bocm has settled down 10 a
steady market Of real estate transfers, but
the price OF property has steadily raised the